Para além das trilhas dos areais: o rasgadinho e Manoel Leopoldo dos Santos como “guardião da memória” dos Antigos carnavais de Aracaju (1962-1972)

Abstract

The goal of this monographic work is discuss the social museology light to the memories of the old carnivals in Aracaju through the Rasgadinho carnival, while a popular Carnival initiative of an amusement alternative in a suburban district of Aracaju where this movement has started. Therefore, from the methodological point of view, the research has developed through interviews, in addition to the use of the cartography and photographs as part of the text and the dialogical attachment to the authors and the works, how to provide the art state concerning the aim of the study and its problems. Finally, it was built up also a conceptual dialogue between memory, presentation and guardian's trajectory memory. As a way to visualize the unique Rasgadinho carnival, its founder, the social actors involved the forgotten stories about the old carnivals celebrations.